There are just so many more laws and rules that apply with marriage that do not come with domestic partnership and also to me it's the commitment.

It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.

There's times when I'm really shy, so these roles that I get to play, they're how I would love to really be. And that's why I love doing stand-up, because it gives me the freedom to say what I really want to say. I think that's why it's my favorite thing to do.

It's not until you develop your own voice, your own persona onstage that you become your own comic, who you really are.

These CEOs, man ... If you're that ruthless, you're a scary dude. I tell you, now when I walk past a little gang banger, I don't even blink. But if I see a white dude with a Wall Street Journal, I haul ass. Before I walk past the Arthur Andersen building, I cut through the projects. If you cut through the projects, you may just lose what you have on you that day. I ain't never been mugged of my whole future.

I'm proud to be a woman. I'm proud to be a black woman, and I'm proud to be gay.

But I understand that relationship; I understand how the mother-in-law, daughter-in-law relationship has so many conflicts because it's so forced.